April, the first month of the Spring/Summer semester of the Academy for Lifelong Learning at CBMM , 7 courses and 2 field trips will be offered covering a broad variety of subjects including history, literature, art, spirituality, political science, astronomy and boating.
Brendan Keegan, a retired EVP of Human Resources, a history buff and a native of Dublin will lead a course on Irish Men in Arms at Home and Abroad: 1916 which will explore the Irish men who fought against British soldiers in the streets of Dublin in the Easter Rebellion in 1916 and then side by side with British soldiers in the trenches of France at the Battle of Somme. This class will meet Monday morning April 15 and April 22 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
John Ford will join forces again with Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Education Director Kate Livie to offer a three week course on three of Mark Twain’s late works of fiction. Each work, a tragedy, a farce, and a satire, is laced with Twain’s humor and human insight yet reflect the darker tone of his more mature writing. The class, Beginning to Come on Dark, will meet Tuesday afternoons April 16 through 30.
Dick Mattingly in his course Faces of Our Founding Fathers will examine with the class the portrait artists of early America and their sometimes famous subjects. As many as 30 rare portraits will be reviewed including those of George Washington and his first cabinet as well as some colonial subjects from the Middle Class. This class will meet Thursday mornings from April 18-May 9.
Karen Armstrong’s book “Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life” will serve as a spring board for discussion in George Merrill and Esty Collet seminar “Gotta Have Heart: becoming agents of reconciliation in a hate and fear-filled world”. This six week forum will be held on Thursday mornings from April 11-May 16.
A Course entitled “How It Ends” will meet Monday afternoons from April 29-May 20 and ask you to ponder ending – person ending, species ending, life on earth ending, solar systems ending, stars ending, galaxies ending, and universes ending. Ron Lesher will lead the discussion.
Returning to the course schedule this April are also the perennial favorites of a visit to the Chesapeake Center on April 10, a tour of the Easton Airport on April 18, Jerry Friedman’s popular class for the “First Mate” (captains not invited) in 4 sessions Thursday mornings from April 18 – May 9, and the Great Decisions Discussion Program on Tuesdays from 5:00-6:30 pm from April 16-June 4.
ALL’s Spring Social will be held on Tuesday April 2 from 4:00-6:00 pm at the Ven Lennep Auditorium in the Steamboat Building at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels. The Social is open to everyone interested in learning more about ALL, upcoming courses and events.
Affiliated with The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD, the Academy for Lifelong Learning is a non-profit, volunteer run organization committed to promoting the exploration of ideas, exchanging knowledge, and sharing experiences. For more information about these programs, to obtain a catalog for the full semester and/or to register for course, please call the Academy for Lifelong Learning at the CBMM at 410-745-4941, or download a catalog online at https://www.cbmm.org/all. Also on Facebook.
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